New Cougar at Silverstone Winter Series Rnd 1

[Npdp72]

Well it was round 1 one of the Silverstone RCMCC Winter Masters Series yesterday.
An awesome event, with a lot of big names in attendance, further details of the series here:
http://www.silverstonercmcc.co.uk/wi...ters-13-14.php

And some photos of the racing here:
http://s210.photobucket.com/user/jwi...14%20Round%201
(And there will be more pics to follow, when I've been through my shots properly!)

Schumacher sponsor this series and many of the top Schumacher drivers were there, some running the new forward motor 2wd car seen at the worlds.
With the kind permission of Robin Schumacher I was allowed to take some closeup photos of Trish Neal's car.
Thanks to Robin and Trish!

Interestingly Trish's car features a shorty lipo layout with the belt routed over the top and a new front shock tower protector that sits in front of the carbon tower - looked neat and would add strength to the front of the car (and help protect Silverstone's precious astroturf!)
The other cars (Simon Moss, Lloyd Storey etc) were running saddle lipo layout I believe.

The cars looked very impressive on the track which was a combination of high grip astro and very low grip lino, with slippery hardboard jump / ripple features, and carpeted larger jumps and corner table top.
Simon and Lloyd made the A and Trish won the B final, I'm sure full results will be posted by SRCMCC soon.

So, here are the pics:

[alex97]

did they say when it would be out ?

[mikeyscott]

It looked very good! I had a chat with Robin and they hope soon, but I won 't say more than that.

I see they've move to HobbyWing too

[Rich D]

Nathan Waters TQd round 1 and qualified A3 with this new car too.

[Arn0]

There is some changes since the worlds championship.
If anyone want to compare: http://www.petitrc.com/_forumphp/sho...237#post542237

[mark christopher]

Originally Posted by Arn0

There is some changes since the worlds championship.
If anyone want to compare: http://www.petitrc.com/_forumphp/sho...237#post542237

Simon moss was running his car from the worlds (one in your link) at worksop on Sunday, looks like Simons car has the provision to fit a rear belt tensioner/router as Trish has, seeing how the mi5 has the option of running mid or rear motor I would guess this may be seen as an optional configuration to further tune the car

[alex97]

Originally Posted by mikeyscott

It looked very good! I had a chat with Robin and they hope soon, but I won 't say more than that.

I see they've move to HobbyWing too

did he say any thing about the price and this year or next ?

[mikeyscott]

Originally Posted by alex97

did he say any thing about the price and this year or next ?

Yes, but I'm not saying as it's not my place. A question to be emailed to Schumacher in my view.

Sorry, but I had a good chat with Robin, nice chap, but conversation specifics - private

[alex97]

Originally Posted by mikeyscott

Yes, but I'm not saying as it's not my place. A question to be emailed to Schumacher in my view.

Sorry, but I had a good chat with Robin, nice chap, but conversation specifics - private

OK thanks for what you could tell us :-)

[Tobamory]

Originally Posted by alex97

did he say any thing about the price and this year or next ?

Id say considering the layout and what the cars bringing to the Market.

The Cougar KR was £190, id hazard a guess they will price it higher at around the £239 mark maybe £259.

I doubt they would take it as high as the K1 but you never know.

[Juicy74]

Oooh I like the front shock cap and mount protection. Looks like it'll fit the sv2.
Finally no more undertray but I wish they would redesign that shell...